Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Please provide a list of all dental practices across the UK that have failed in completing their UDA target during the period specified. Please confirm in relation to these practices what their UDA target was, as well as their UDA value, how many UDAs they completed, how many UDAs they did not complete, what the clawback value is for each practice and when this is to be collected. Please also provide a list of all of the dental practices seeking to return their NHS contracts, together with, contact names, numbers and email addresses

You clarified your request with the following:

The time period for the request is the Years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.

Your clarified request was received on 2 May 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

2021-2022 England and Wales data

A copy of the information is attached.

Notes for England data:

Contract Number - This is a unique 10 character number which identifies a contract

Latest Provider Name - The latest name of the provider

Latest PPC Full Address – This is the full address of the main address used for correspondence between the NHSBSA and the dental contract, it is not necessarily the address where treatment takes place.

Commissioner Name – This is the name associated with the Commissioning Organisation. This is a generic term used to denote health bodies, either Area Teams in England or Health Boards in Wales. Also known as Primary Care Organisations (PCOs)

Paid by BSA – Y/N. Set to 'Y' where the Paid by NHSBSA tick box is ticked within CoMPASS and 'N' where the Paid by NHSBSA tick box is blank. Therefore this dimension can identify those contracts that are paid or not paid by NHSBSA

UDA Financial Value – The financial value associated with the UDA service line for the financial year, as entered on CoMPASS by the commissioner.

UDA Performance Target H1 – UDA Contracted / 12 * 6

UDA Contracted - The contracted units of dental activity to be achieved for the year. This figure is taken directly from CoMPASS.

Final Adjusted Delivered Activity UDA H1 – Final delivery for the period including, if financially beneficial, over performance threshold UDA from future periods.

UDA Performance Target Q3 – UDA Contracted / 12 * 3

Final Adjusted Delivered Activity UDA Q3 – Final delivery for the period including, if financially beneficial, over performance threshold UDA from future periods, and less over performance threshold UDA from Q3.

UDA Performance Target Q4 – UDA Contracted / 12 * 3

Final Adjusted Delivered Activity UDA Q4 – Final delivery for the period including, if financially beneficial, less over performance threshold UDA from Q4.

UOA Financial Value – The financial value associated with the service line for the financial year, as entered on CoMPASS by the commissioner.

UOA Performance Target H1 – UOA Contracted / 12 * 6

UOA Contracted - The contracted units of dental activity to be achieved for the year. This figure is taken directly from CoMPASS.

Final Adjusted Delivered Activity UOA H1 – Final delivery for the period including, if financially beneficial, over performance threshold UOA from future periods.

UOA Performance Target Q3 – UOA Contracted / 12 * 3

Final Adjusted Delivered Activity UOA Q3 – Final delivery for the period including, if financially beneficial, over performance threshold UOA from future periods, and less over performance threshold UOA from Q3.

UOA Performance Target Q4 – UOA Contracted / 12 * 3

Final Adjusted Delivered Activity UOA Q4 – Final delivery for the period including, if financially beneficial, less over performance threshold UOA from Q4.

Total Financial Cost Adjustments - Sum of Cost Adjustments (UDA) for H1, Q3 and Q4 – please see definitions below.

UDA Cost Adjustment H1 - Variable cost adjustment will be applied at the agreed rate for each time period to all contracted activity where a contractor has benefited from income protection.

For Partial Payment Protection H1: = [Actual No. of Undelivered UDA/UOAs – (Contracted UDA/UOAs per time period – (100% / 60% Performance Threshold x Adjusted Scheduled Activity))] x Indicative UDA/UOA value x 16.75% Adjustment

For Full Payment Protection H1: = No. of Undelivered UDAs/UOAs x Indicative UDA/UOA value x 16.75% Adjustment

UDA Cost Adjustment Q3 - Variable cost adjustment will be applied at the agreed rate for each time period to all contracted activity where a contractor has benefited from income protection;

For Partial Payment Protection Q3: = [Actual No. of Undelivered UDA/UOAs – (Contracted UDAs per time period – (100% / 65% Performance Threshold x Adjusted Scheduled Activity))] x Indicative UDA/UOA value x 12.75% Adjustment

For Full Payment Protection Q3: = No. of Undelivered UDAs/UOAs x Indicative UDA/UOA value x 12.75% Adjustment

UDA cost Adjustment Q4 - Variable cost adjustment will be applied at the agreed rate for each time period to all contracted activity where a contractor has benefited from income protection;

For Partial Payment Protection Q4 = [Actual No. of Undelivered UDA/UOAs – (Contracted UDA/UOAs per time period – (100% / 85% Performance Threshold x Adjusted Scheduled Activity) )] x Indicative UDA/UOA value x 12.75% Adjustment

For Full Payment Protection Q4: = No. of Undelivered UDAs/UOAs x Indicative UDA/UOA value x 12.75% Adjustment.

Total Financial Performance Adjustments - Sum of all Full Performance Adjustments (UDA) based on those for H1, Q3 and Q4 as per the below three definitions.

UDA Full Performance Adjustment H1 - contractor has failed to achieve the minimum threshold for income protection they will receive contractual payment for delivered activity only, = No. of Undelivered UDAs x Indicative UDA value.

UDA Full Performance Adjustment Q3 - contractor has failed to achieve the minimum threshold for income protection they will receive contractual payment for delivered activity only, = No. of Undelivered UDAs x Indicative UDA value.

UDA Full Performance Adjustment Q4 - contractor has failed to achieve the minimum threshold for income protection they will receive contractual payment for delivered activity only, = No. of Undelivered UDAs x Indicative UDA value

Total Financial Recovery - Sum of all performance adjustments and cost adjustments.

PCAR End Date - Closure dates reported in the 21/22 and 22/23 Primary Care Activity Report (PCAR).

For a more in-depth description of the 2021/22 Year End Reconciliation process, please see: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/03/B1277-Managing-the-2021-22-year-end-reconciliation-5-April-2022.pdf

Notes for Wales data

Data refers to contracts in Wales as shown on CoMPASS.
Data refers to UDA (Units of Dental Activity) and UOA (Units of Orthodontic Activity) metrics and activity as shown on CoMPASS.
Reporting Year: The financial year which the activity/contracted services relate to - to be used for year end reporting.

Contract Number: This is a unique 10 character number which identifies a contract.
Provider Name: The name of the provider.

Commissioner Name: This is the name of the Commissioning Organisation. This a generic term used to denote health bodies, either Area Teams in England or Health Boards in Wales. Also known as Primary Care Organisations (PCOs).

UDA Financial Value (21/22): The total value associated with the contracted units of general activity for the 21/22 reporting year, as entered on CoMPASS.

UDA Performance Target (21/22): The contracted units of general dental activity to be achieved for the 21/22 reporting year. This figure is taken directly from the CoMPASS system.
UDA Delivered (21/22): The total number of Units of Dental Activity achieved in the 21/22 reporting year.

UDA Undelivered (21/22): The total number of Units of Dental Activity not achieved within the UDA Performance Target, in the 21/22 reporting year (UDA Perforance Target - UDA Delivered).
UDA Value (21/22): Total UDA Financial Value divided by the UDA Peformance Target, for the 21/22 reporting year.

Clawback Total (To Date) : The total value of all clawbacks on CoMPASS associated with the contract, as of April 2023. The clawbacks have taken place under the payment codes UPS_2122, UPS_2122_C and UPS_2122_O.The clawback payments refer to Year-End activity from the 21/22 reporting year.

Remaining information

Please note that we do not hold final data for 2022-23, as dental contractors have until end of June in which to submit their FP17s, before the year-end reconciliation process occurs.

For Wales we do not hold information on contract hand backs. Local Health Boards/Welsh Government would hold that information.

Please also note that NHSBSA only hold Dental information for England and Wales.

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